Tag: video editor
Social media is now a big part of any creative’s life. At least it should be since there are tons of opportunities to engage with fellow creators and potential …
4K video is now the norm. It’s weird to think about still, but we now have screens and computers and even phones that can easily view 4K footage. As …
Nobody wants to spend an eternity in front of a computer screen going through an edit. There is obviously a necessary time commitment, but the goal is to get …
You can spend a lot of time learning the right way to do things, but you can learn nearly as much (if not more) by looking into what you …
Anything that can avoid me opening yet another program during my editing is great. Working in Premiere Pro and having to move over to After Effects for a single …
When you start getting into more professional graphics, one beautiful effect is placing text behind moving objects. Done right, this look elevates production quality dramatically. There are even some …
Color grading is a highly technical process. There are usually a few LUTs involved, some scopes to check out, color charts if you are properly set up, and that …
Motion graphics and animation can be very time-consuming. Building out keyframes and making sure everything is just right is a tedious process that usually requires a few iterations to …
Noise is a pesky problem with modern digital video cameras. Sometimes your hand is forced and your location or subject are not well lit meaning you need to push …
Chroma keys get all the attention. Sure, pulling off a great green screen effect is an amazing feat and can bring together a special effects sequence to elevate your …
Tracking in DaVinci Resolve is near magic. Most of the time I just hit track and it runs through the entire clip without a single issue, perfectly tracking whatever …
Recently developed for Premiere Pro is a Scene Edit Detection feature that can automatically find cut points in a video file to help editors more quickly break up a …
Rotoscoping is fun. It hasn’t always been too easy to pull off. To just give a quick explainer of what rotoscoping is, it is when you cut out an …
Among the things filmmakers never have control over is the weather. It’s unfortunate because sometimes you only have one or two days to nail some exterior scenes and it …
When Adobe moved the Creative Cloud Suite to subscription-only, including Premiere Pro, among the supposed advantages was that they could drop new features all year round, instead of saving …
When you are out and about shooting clips in public areas it is probably often you’ll have a good take that could be even better if something or someone …
8K is becoming more and more of a reality. You can buy a (relatively) affordable camera, shoot and edit some 8K, and export it on a decent machine without …
Fix it in post is one of the worst plans you could make. Unfortunately, sometimes its the only plan you have left. Sometimes it’s you own errors during shooting …
Add some spice to your next videos by using some stylized transitions. Doesn’t seem like much and only takes up a fraction of the video, but it has a …
Plugins can be huge time-savers for video editors. There are so many parts to video editing – especially for independent workers. We are talking about the basic edit, audio, …